PublishPress Content Checklist is a powerful WordPress plugin that helps editors and authors complete posts to a professional standard. It adds customizable pre-publish checklists, enforces editorial rules, and streamlines workflows so content is accurate, consistent, and ready to rank.
- Custom checklists for posts, pages, and custom post types
- Mark items as required, recommended, or optional
- Prevent publishing until required tasks are completed
- Real-time validation inside the post editor (Classic and Gutenberg)
- Rules for titles, word count, categories, tags, and featured image
- Checks for internal/external links and broken or missing links
- Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and SEO plugin integration checks
- Enforce use of excerpts and custom fields
- Author, editor, and role-based rule targeting
- Per-post-type and per-status configuration
- Scheduling, publication date, and future post checks
- Multisite and multilingual-friendly setup
- Email and on-screen warnings for incomplete tasks
- Activity logs to track checklist compliance
- Easy setup with presets and import/export of rules
